My intent was to foment a user uprising resulting in pressure on the .edu & .com level administrators to provide funding from established budgets. More of a corporate funding than individual contributions.
Perhaps a cc to the local spreadsheet managers would get the user needs better communicated. I.e. you can't aklog one time only until you fill out the poll, send it in w/cc to local financial folks. Tedc On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Troy Benjegerdes <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 02:49:08AM -0700, Ted Creedon wrote: > > > How about taking a AFS wide survey using a aklog token driven one time > pop > > up explaining that AFS is not being updated according to industry > standards > > and that it needs substantial financial support. > > > > Most users are charged for computer support one way or another. AFS needs > > to be included just like Microsoft license fees. > > > > I.e. is there any way to get the users fired up? > > I like this. But I think for this to work we need a simple URL like > 'http://openafs.org/donate' that that shows up in the command line aklog > client, and on a clickable link in the GUI client. > > Currently http://static.usenix.org/about/openafs/ is the only 'donate to > OpenAFS' link I can find, but that requires cutting a check. The landing > page for donations needs to accept PayPal, Amazon payments, Dwolla, and > Bitcoin, as well as form to click saying 'My organization uses openafs, > please contact __________ who has purchasing authority' > > I think it would look better to have a full OpenAFS foundation with clear > governance, but for the moment, all that is needed is some consensus to > set up a 'donate' landing page on OpenAFS.org, and someone to set up the > payment arrangements so checks get regularly cut to the address on the > Usenix association page. > > If there is a consensus to go ahead with this, I would be willing to offer > to handle the Dwolla and Bitcoin 'instant donate' links. I can beat > whatever > percentage Amazon and Paypal take and still make it worth my time, and I'll > include the others because it makes for wider audience for contributions. > > If there is not a consensus to go ahead with this within a month or two, > I'm going to (at whatever glacial pace I feel like it) release TFS > version(s) > for Linux, Android, and MacOS that have such a link and donate pages. >
